TheDrummer · language model
Skyfall 36B V2: pricing, context and benchmarks
Skyfall 36B V2 is TheDrummer's model released on March 10, 2025. It costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $0.8 per million output tokens, with a 32.8K-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
What you need to know about Skyfall 36B V2
TheDrummer put Skyfall 36B V2 online on March 10, 2025. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 32,768 tokens, larger than 8 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 29,491 tokens in one go.
Released more than 1 year ago, it belongs to a generation most vendors have since superseded.
Skyfall 36B V2 pricing
On OpenRouter, Skyfall 36B V2 costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $0.8 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $0.613 per million, more expensive than 45 % of paid models (1.2 times cheaper than the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.0015. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $45 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Tokens already sent and cached are billed at $0.25 per million.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Skyfall 36B V2. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
- It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
- Its knowledge stops at June 2024.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face: you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party.
Other TheDrummer models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cydonia 24B V4.1 | Sep 27, 2025 | $0.35 | — |
| UnslopNemo 12B | Nov 8, 2024 | $0.4 | — |
Verdict
Computed score: 42/100, from public data (performance, price, context, features).
Strengths
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
Limitations
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Older generation, often replaced by a newer model from the same vendor.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- you are building an agent that must call tools;
- you analyse long documents in one go.
Alternatives
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Skyfall 36B V2 cost?
$0.55 per million input tokens and $0.8 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.0015.
How big is Skyfall 36B V2's context window?
32,768 tokens, roughly 25,000 words, with a maximum of 29,491 output tokens.
Can Skyfall 36B V2 run locally?
Yes, its weights are published.
Is Skyfall 36B V2 suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to Skyfall 36B V2?
The closest models on price and performance are Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image), Gemma 2 27B, and Perceptron Mk1.5.
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